Andrew Kutz
Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Kutz is a Distinguished Engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and developer tooling from Austin, Texas. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—especially in Go, CI, Docker, and Kubernetes—with a track record of shipping production-ready components for VMware and cloud provider ecosystems. Andrew has driven notable open-source work, contributing to widely used projects like viper and the Container Storage Interface spec, and helped bootstrap storage tooling adopted across enterprises. He mentors engineers, fosters community engagement through talks and projects, and emphasizes listening as a teaching tool. Past roles span Broadcom and Dell EMC, where he led storage integrations, container storage standards, and CI/build improvements that improved developer velocity. Outside work he foregrounds family and community, reflecting a pragmatic, long-term view on engineering and collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Ancient History and Classical Civilization, BA Ancient History and Classical Civilization at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (72)
dependency-management10
vsphere10
benchmark10
controller10
python10
testing10
automation10
infrastructure10
cloud-platform10
build-automation10
par10
k8s10
kr8s10
dockers10
api10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
akutz/go-generics-the-hard-way
Jan 2022 - May 2022
A hands-on approach to getting started with Go generics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 17 PRs, 130 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Go generics tutorial repository. They fixed errors related to Go's `new(T)` behavior, corrected misuse of "type alias," and resolved issues in the boxing benchmark. Furthermore, the user added test targets and examples to ensure code quality and usability, while also improving the benchmark data for build times and file sizes. These contributions showcase a focus on code correctness, performance, and educational content within the context of Go generics.
go-generics
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 releases, 5 reviews, 262 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's primary contribution focuses on building and managing the infrastructure and configuration for the VSphere cloud provider for Cluster API. This involves creating and modifying build scripts, including those for generating and uploading container images, building and deploying HAProxy load balancers, and updating the project's Makefile. The user demonstrates skills in Docker, Go, and shell scripting to support the deployment of HAProxy load balancers for the project's e2e testing framework.
k8s-sig-vmwarecluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecycle
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